2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

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2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	2 November – 11 November
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (2nd title)
Second place	Mexico
Third place	Uruguay
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	261  (8.16 per match)
Attendance	178,900  (5,591 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Buru (10 goals)
Best player	Buru

The 2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the third edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup supervised by FIFA. Previous editions were not organised by FIFA, and were held under the title Beach Soccer World Championship. The World Cup took place from November 2 to November 11, 2007 in Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Contents 1 Teams 2 Group stage 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 2.3 Group C 2.4 Group D 3 Knockout stage 3.1 Quarterfinals 3.2 Semifinals 3.3 Third place match 3.4 Final 4 Awards 4.1 Final standing 5 References

[edit] Teams

Main article: 2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers

16 teams from 6 continents qualified to the 2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup:

Asian zone:  Iran  Japan  United Arab Emirates (first appearance) African zone:  Nigeria  Senegal (first appearance) South-American zone:  Argentina  Uruguay Oceanian zone:  Solomon Islands

European zone:  France  Italy  Portugal  Russia (first appearance)  Spain North, Central American and Caribbean zone:  USA  Mexico (first appearance) Host nation:  Brazil

[edit] Group stage

[edit] Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	W aet/pso	L	GF	GA	GD
Brazil	8	3	2	1	0	19	8	+11
Mexico	5	3	1	1	1	12	11	+1
Russia	3	3	1	0	2	9	6	+3
Solomon Islands	0	3	0	0	3	7	22	-15

November 2, 2007	Russia	2–2 (a.e.t.) (1 – 2 pen.)	Mexico	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 8 000 Referee: Erick Chavarria
	Anton Shkarin  32' Egor Shaykov  34'		Ricardo Villalobos  14' Oscar Gonzales  27'

	Penalties Bolabanov Shakmelyan	1 – 2	Penalties Villalobos Rosales

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November 2, 2007	Brazil	11–2	Solomon Islands	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 9 500 Referee: Ruben Eiriz
	Buru  2',  31' (pen) Junior Negao  6',  36' Daniel  13',  29' Bruno  15',  27' Sidney  23',  23' Duda  36'		Benjamin Mela  23' James Naka  27'

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November 4, 2007	Mexico	4–6	Brazil	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 10 000 Referee: Stephan Faessler
	Morgan Plata  4' Oscar Gonzales  9' Ricardo Villalobos  12' Francisco Cati  19'		Buru  9',  20' Andre  11' Junior Negao  24' Bruno  24' Benjamin  34'

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November 4, 2007	Solomon Islands	2–5	Russia	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 3 000 Referee: Ali Sharifat
	Fred Hale  18' Richard Anisua  27'		Ilya Leonov  1',  19',  30' Dmitry Shishin  2' Rustam Shakmelyan  24'

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November 6, 2007	Brazil	2–2 (a.e.t.) (5 – 4 pen.)	Russia	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 6 000 Referee: Istvan Maszaros
	Andre  19' Sidney  33'		Dmitry Shishin  30',  31'

	Penalties Negao Benjamin Daniel Sidney Mao Betinho Bruno	5 – 4	Penalties Bolabanov Pavlikov Gorchinskiy Gordonov Shishin Bukhlitskiy Shkmelyan

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November 6, 2007	Solomon Islands	3–6	Mexico	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 1 000 Referee: Sergejus Slyva
	James Naka  4',  22',  34'		Gustavo Rosales  9',  17' Morgan Plata  14',  29' Richard Villalobos  27' Alejandro Pozos  35'

[edit] Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	W aet/pso	L	GF	GA	GD
Spain	6	3	2	0	1	16	11	+5
Portugal	4	3	0	2	1	11	12	-1
Iran	3	3	1	0	2	14	14	0
USA	3	3	1	0	2	16	20	-4

November 2, 2007	Portugal	3–3 (a.e.t.) (1 – 0 pen.)	Iran	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 3 000 Referee: Ivo De Moraes
	Alan  4',  14',  21'		Ali Naderi  10' Moslem Mesigar  19' (pen) Froogh Dara  30'

	Penalties Belchior	1 – 0	Penalties Ghorbanpour

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November 2, 2007	USA	4–8	Spain	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 2 000 Referee: Juan Rodriguez
	Raphael Xexeo  12' Zak Ibsen  17' Jevin Albuquerque  26' Mario Chimienti  27'		Nico  2',  31' Ivan Rumbo  14' Javi Alvarez  23',  31' Amarelle  24',  33'  34'

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November 4, 2007	Spain	4–2	Portugal	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 8 000 Referee: Favio Polito
	Amarelle  14' Javier Torres  19' (pen) Javi Alvarez  22' Nico  36'		Bilro  23' Madjer  30'

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November 4, 2007	Iran	6–7	USA	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 4 000 Referee: George Postma
	Ali Aligoli  17' Mohammad Ahmadzadeh  18',  18' Mehdi Davoudi  28' Hamed Ghorbanpour  31' Moslem Mesigar  35'		Joshua Nolz  8' (pen),  22' Mario Chimienti  10',  31' Yuri Morales  20' Benyam Astroga  23' Zak Ibsen  34'

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November 6, 2007	Spain	4–5	Iran	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 2 000 Referee: Mohamed Morsi
	Cristian Torres  5' Miguel Beiro  14' Javier Torres  14',  34'		Moslem Mesigar  6' Hamed Ghorbanpour  8',  34' Ali Aligoli  9' Mohammad Ahmadzadeh  20'

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November 6, 2007	USA	5–6 (a.e.t.)	Portugal	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 2 000 Referee: Sylvain Palhies
	Benyam Astorga  17',  21' Jushua Nolz  26' Mario Chimienti  30' Jevin Albuquerque  35'		Madjer  2',  35' Bilro  8',  39' Alan  14',  18'

[edit] Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	W aet/pso	L	GF	GA	GD
Senegal	8	3	2	1	0	15	8	+7
Uruguay	5	3	1	1	1	8	9	-1
Italy	3	3	1	0	2	13	12	+1
Japan	0	3	0	0	3	6	13	-7

November 3, 2007	Uruguay	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Italy	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 6 000 Referee: Pedro Infantes
	Ricaar  23',  23' Matias  37'		Roberto Pasquali  6' Paolo Palamacci  16'

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November 3, 2007	Japan	1–4	Senegal	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 2 000 Referee: Waleed Al Ali
	Shusei Yamauchi  34'		Malick Dieng  5' Pape Koukpaki  6' (pen),  22' Gomis Mbengue  29'

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November 5, 2007	Italy	6 –3	Japan	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 1 000 Referee: Hernan Fernandez
	Paolo Palmacci  5' Damiano Maiorano  10' Robert Pasquali  24',  25',  27' Michele Leghissa  26'		Teruki Tabata  7' Shusei Yamauchi  13',  22'

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November 5, 2007	Senegal	5–2	Uruguay	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 1 000 Referee: Franklin Quesada
	Mamadou Diallo  2' Pape Koukpaki  8',  29',  31' Ngalla Sylla  15'		Parrillo  6' Ricar  8'

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November 7, 2007	Senegal	6–5 (a.e.t.)	Italy	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 4 500 Referee: Alberto Moreira
	Gomis Kbengue  2',  19' Pape Koukpaki  8',  39' Badiane Mbengue  9' Modou Thioune  35'		Paolo Palmacci  1' Roberto Pasquali  8' (pen),  9' Damiano Maiorano  13'

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November 7, 2007	Japan	2–3	Uruguay	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 1 000 Referee: George Postma
	Shusei Yamauchi  5' Takashi Arakaki  17'		Parrillo  1' Ricar  33' Pampero  35'

[edit] Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	W aet/pso	L	GF	GA	GD
Nigeria	7	3	1	2	0	14	12	+2
France	5	3	1	1	1	11	10	+1
Argentina	3	3	1	0	2	9	9	0
United Arab Emirates	0	3	0	0	3	13	16	-3

November 3, 2007	Nigeria	5–3	Argentina	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 6 000 Referee: Istvan Maszaros
	Idoko Ibrahim  4' Osahon Uhunmwangho  12' Ifeanyi Onigbo  15' Ogbonnaya Okemmiri  16' 21'		Gustavo Casado  8' Santiago Hilaire  22' Frederico Andrade  23' (pen)

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November 3, 2007	United Arab Emirates	5–6	France	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 3 000 Referee: Renato De Carlos
	Haidar Bashir  5',  23',  26' Qambar Sadeqi  20' Hassan Aljesmi  35'		Jeremy Basquaise  4',  9' Didier Samoun  9',  18',  22',  36'

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November 5, 2007	Argentina	4–2	United Arab Emirates	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 1 000 Referee: Ruben Eiriz
	Federico Hilaire  2',  27' Facundo Minici  15' Gustavo Casado  21'		Rami Al Mesaabi  5' Qambar Sadeqi  22'

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November 5, 2007	France	3–3 (a.e.t.) (2 – 3 pen.)	Nigeria	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 1 300 Referee: Alberto Moreira
	Laurent Castro  13' Stephane Francois  36' Jeremy Basquaise  36'		Uga Okpara  11',  20' Suleman Usman  33'

	Penalties Francois Pérez Samoun	2 – 3	Penalties Onigbo Uhunmwangho Olawale

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November 7, 2007	France	2–2 (a.e.t.) (2 – 1 pen.)	Argentina	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 5 000 Referee: Erick Chavarria
	Jeremy Basquaise  3' Stephane Francois  6'		Ezequiel Hilaire  18' Facundo Minici  26'

	Penalties Castro Pérez Francois	2 – 1	Penalties Minici Lopez Casado

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November 7, 2007	United Arab Emirates	6–6 (a.e.t.) (1 – 0 pen.)	Nigeria	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 1 000 Referee: Ivo De Moraes
	Bakhit Alabadla  9',  10',  23' Ali Albloushi  12' Ali Karim  22' Haidar Bashir  35'		Uga Okpara  4' Ogbonnaya Okemmiri  4' Isiaka Olawale  5',  7' (pen),  15' Suleman Usman  31'

	Penalties Bashir	1 – 0	Penalties Olawale

[edit] Knockout stage

Quarterfinal

B1

Spain

4

A2

Mexico

5

Semifinal

QF1

Mexico

5

Quarterfinal

QF4

Uruguay

2

D1

Nigeria

1

C2

Uruguay

3

Final

SF1

Mexico

2

Quarterfinal

SF2

Brazil

8

A1

Brazil

10

B2

Portugal

7

Semifinal

Bronze Medal Game

QF2

Brazil

6

SF1

Uruguay (pen.)

2(1)

Quarterfinal

QF3

France

2

SF2

France

2(0)

C1

Senegal

3

D2

France

6

[edit] Quarterfinals

November 8, 2007	Spain	4 – 5	Mexico	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 10 000 Referee: Stephan Faessler
	Javi Alvarez  14' Miguel Beiro  14' (pen) Cristián Torres  16' Adam  32'	(Report)	Ricardo Villalobos  16' (pen),  34' Oscar Gonzales  18' Morgan Plata  26' Moises Salazar  32'

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November 8, 2007	Brazil	10 – 7	Portugal	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 10 000 Referee: Sergejus Slyva
	Sidney  2',  4' Andre  11',  27' Buru  12',  34',  36' Daniel  13',  30' Bruno  16'	(Report)	Madjer  1',  13',  27',  28',  34' Alan  3' Hernani  5'

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November 8, 2007	Senegal	3 – 6	France	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 6 000 Referee: Juan Rodriguez
	Alassane Thiaw  13' Malick Dieng  14' Gomis Mbengue  27'	(Report)	Sébastien Pérez  1' Thierry Ottavy  3' Tony Ruggeri  17' Stephane Francois  27',  33' Gregory Tanagro  30'

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November 8, 2007	Nigeria	1 – 3	Uruguay	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 1 000 Referee: Fabio Polito
	Idoko Ibrahim  36'	(Report)	Matias  29' Ricar  34' Parrillo  36'

[edit] Semifinals

November 10, 2007	Mexico	5 – 2	Uruguay	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 10 000 Referee: Sergejus Slyva
	Morgan Plata  1',  20',  32',  35' Ricardo Villalonos  36'	(Report)	Ricar  4',  24'

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November 10, 2007	Brazil	6 – 2	France	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 10 000 Referee: Istvan Maszaros
	Buru  1',  2' Bruno  9',  16' Betinho  33',  34'	(Report)	Sébastien Pérez  1' Jeremy Basquaise  35'

[edit] Third place match

November 11, 2007	Uruguay	2–2 (a.e.t.) (1 – 0 pen.)	France	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 10 000 Referee: Fabio Polito
	Pampero  6',  30'	(Report)	Jeremy Basquaise  1',  10'

	Penalties Ricar	1 – 0	Penalties Pérez

[edit] Final

November 11, 2007	Mexico	2–8	Brazil	Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena Attendance: 10 000 Referee: Ruben Eiriz
	Ricardo Villalobos  14' Morgan Plata  36'	(Report)	Andre  9',  28' Bruno  11',  16' Benjamin  14' Buru  19' Betinho  22' Junior Negao  36'

[edit] Awards

2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Winners
Brazil Second title

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Buru	Madjer	Morgan Plata
Golden Shoe	Silver Shoe	Bronze Shoe
Buru	Morgan Plata	Bruno
10 goals	9 goals	8 goals
FIFA Fair Play Award
Brazil

[edit] Final standing

Rank	Team
1	Brazil
2	Mexico
3	Uruguay
4	France
5-8	Spain
	Nigeria
	Senegal
	Portugal
8-12	Argentina
	Italy
	Iran
	Russia
13-16	United Arab Emirates
	Japan
	USA
	Solomon Islands

[edit] References

• Group and standing
• Teams
• Special Awards

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